Gareth Paddison
Gareth Paddison | |
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Paddison at the 2008 European Masters | |
Personal information | |
Born | Wellington, New Zealand | 13 May 1980
Height | 6 ft 0 in (1.83 m) |
Weight | 163 lb (74 kg; 11.6 st) |
Nationality | ![]() |
Career | |
Turned professional | 2001 |
Current tour(s) | PGA Tour of Australasia |
Former tour(s) | European Tour Challenge Tour OneAsia Tour Asian Tour |
Professional wins | 13 |
Number of wins by tour | |
PGA Tour of Australasia | 4 |
Challenge Tour | 1 |
Other | 8 |
Gareth Paddison (born 13 May 1980) is a New Zealand professional golfer who plays on the PGA Tour of Australasia.
Amateur career[]
Paddison won the New Zealand Amateur Stroke Play Championship and the Queensland Amateur Championship 1999 and the Canadian Amateur Championship in 2001. He also represented New Zealand at the 2000 Eisenhower Trophy.
Professional career[]
Paddison turned professional in 2001. He was named the Norman Von Nida Australasian PGA Tour Rookie of the Year in 2002 after he won the Scenic Circle Hotels Dunedin Classic. He played on the Challenge Tour from 2002 to 2007. In 2002 he finished in third at the Izki Challenge de España. In 2004 he won the Victorian Open on the Von Nida Tour while finishing in a tie for second at the Skandia PGA Open on the Challenge Tour. He picked up his first win on the Challenge Tour in 2007 at the Open des Volcans. He earned his European Tour card for 2008 by going through qualifying school but he wasn't able to retain his card even though he recorded five top-25 finishes, and returned to the Challenge tour for 2009.
From 2010 Paddison played mostly on the PGA Tour of Australasia and the OneAsia tour. He won three tier-2 events on the Australasian Tour, the Queensland PGA Championship in 2011 and the Victorian PGA Championship in 2012 and 2014. His best finish on the OneAsia tour was when he was a runner-up in the 2015 GS Caltex Maekyung Open in Korea. He played on the Asian Tour in 2018, having secured a place through Q-school.[1] He has won 5 times on the Charles Tour and won the Fiji Open in 2016.
Personal life[]
His father, Garry, played for the New Zealand national football team in the 1970s.
Amateur wins[]
- 1999 New Zealand Amateur Stroke Play Championship, Queensland Amateur Championship
- 2000 SBS Invitational
- 2001 Canadian Amateur Championship
Professional wins (13)[]
PGA Tour of Australasia wins (4)[]
No. | Date | Tournament | Winning score | Margin of victory |
Runner(s)-up |
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1 | 24 Mar 2002 | Scenic Circle Hotels Dunedin Classic | −17 (66-69-68-64=267) | 3 strokes | ![]() |
2 | 27 Feb 2011 | Cellarbrations Queensland PGA Championship | −18 (67-67-62-66=262) | 2 strokes | ![]() ![]() |
3 | 19 Feb 2012 | Adroit Insurance Group Victorian PGA Championship | −7 (67-69-67-74=277) | 1 stroke | ![]() |
4 | 9 Feb 2014 | Lexus of Blackburn Victorian PGA Championship (2) | −16 (67-68-66-71=272) | 1 stroke | ![]() |
Challenge Tour wins (1)[]
No. | Date | Tournament | Winning score | Margin of victory |
Runner-up |
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1 | 8 Jul 2007 | AGF-Allianz Open des Volcans - Challenge de France |
−11 (70-69-68-66=273) | 6 strokes | ![]() |
Von Nida Tour wins (1)[]
No. | Date | Tournament | Winning score | Margin of victory |
Runners-up |
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1 | 25 Jan 2004 | Victorian Open | −12 (71-66-67=204) | 5 strokes | ![]() ![]() |
Charles Tour wins (5)[]
No. | Date | Tournament | Winning score | Margin of victory |
Runner(s)-up |
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1 | 19 Sep 2010 | −8 (74-67-67-72=280) | 5 strokes | ![]() ![]() | |
2 | 26 Apr 2015 | −16 (66-66-66-66=264) | 4 strokes | ![]() | |
3 | 2 Apr 2017 | (2) | −18 (66-64-64-68=262) | Playoff | ![]() |
4 | 9 Apr 2017 | −15 (64-69-69-71=273) | 5 strokes | ![]() | |
5 | 15 Apr 2018 | (2) | −12 (70-67-71-68=276) | Playoff | ![]() |
Other wins (2)[]
- 2000 Waikato Strokeplay Championship[citation needed]
- 2016 Fiji Open
Team appearances[]
Amateur
- Nomura Cup (representing New Zealand): 1999
- Eisenhower Trophy (representing New Zealand): 2000
- Four Nations Cup (representing New Zealand): 2001
- Southern Cross Cup (representing New Zealand): 2001
Professional
- World Cup (representing New Zealand): 2011
See also[]
References[]
- ^ "Ben Campbell and Gareth Paddison secure Asian Tour Cards for 2018". New Zealand Golf. 15 January 2018.
External links[]
- Gareth Paddison at the European Tour official site
- Gareth Paddison at the PGA Tour of Australasia official site
- Gareth Paddison at the Official World Golf Ranking official site
- New Zealand male golfers
- PGA Tour of Australasia golfers
- European Tour golfers
- Left-handed golfers
- Sportspeople from Wellington City
- 1980 births
- Living people